I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.
You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it's exactly the opposite.
I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.
There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.
Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one.
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.
Ill give you a definite maybe.
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.
I don't know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played.
I've been doing this long enough that you can tell when people have seen you in something they didn't enjoy, and when they have seen you in something they actually enjoyed.
When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.
After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.
By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America.
Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.
You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?
Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.
You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don't drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day - that's what I'm down to. I drink wine - you know, I'm normal. But I do eat well.
You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.
I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.
And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.
